Spalding presents program of songs, tunes, storytelling

Sun Journal staff

Wednesday

Jan 16, 2013 at 12:01 AMJan 16, 2013 at 4:10 PM

Simon Spalding returns to Trent River Coffee Company on Friday, presenting “The Florida’s Crew.” The program combines songs, tunes and storytelling to weave an epic tale of exploration, adventure and far-off lands and seas.

Simon Spalding returns to Trent River Coffee Company on Friday, presenting “The Florida’s Crew.” The program combines songs, tunes and storytelling to weave an epic tale of exploration, adventure and far-off lands and seas.

The concert takes its title from a song composed aboard the Confederate commerce raider CSS Florida, celebrating the exploits of the ship and its crew.

Spalding’s program also will include his own “Ballad of S.S. Rex,” about a California gambling ship from the 1930s, Rudyard Kipling’s “On the Road to Mandalay,” “Amelia Earhart’s Last Flight,” Stephen Foster’s “Hard Times Come Again No More” and “A Whale of a Tale” as famously sung on film by actor Kirk Douglas.

Lively instrumental tunes from around the world round out the program.

The instruments include the familiar — violin and banjo — and the exotic: Chinese erhu; the octar, a hybrid of the mandolin and 12-string guitar; and a Tahitian Ukulele.

Many of the new songs are featured on the CD “Pacific Wind Sampler,” which will be for sale at the concert along with the artist’s other CD titles.

Trent River Coffee Company is at 208 Craven St. in New Bern. The music begins at 7 p.m. Tickets are $5, available at the door.

Call 514-2030 for more information.

On the Web: musicalhistorian.com.

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